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Ventricular assist devices as destination therapy: psychosocial and ethical implications. [PDF]

Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J, 2015
Grogan S, Kostick K, Delgado E, Bruce CR.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Left Ventricular Assist Device as Destination Therapy

The VAD Journal, 2014
Mechanical circulatory support is the most rapidly evolving strategy in heart failure management. The growing number of patients who need better results than medical therapy can offer, the limited pool of donors for cardiac transplantation, and several technological breakthroughs have all made the option of implanting a left ventricular assist device ...
Guglin, Maya, Miller, Leslie W.
openaire   +4 more sources

Left Ventricular Assist Device Destination Therapy: A Journey to Home and Beyond. [PDF]

JACC Case Rep
Munir MZ, Galicia-Castillo MC, Achitoov M, Yehya A.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Impact of mechanical circulatory support on donor heart allocation: past, present, and future [PDF]

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) recently revised its heart allocation policy to address numerous shortcomings of the previous system. Implemented in 2018, the changes sought to reduce waiting list mortality, clearly define urgency status ...
Robert T. Tatum, H. Todd Massey, Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcomes After Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation as Destination Therapy at Transplant Versus Nontransplant Centers [PDF]

Circulation: Heart Failure, 2018
D. Brinkley, D. DeNofrio, R. Ruthazer, A. Vest, N. Kapur, G. Couper, M. Kiernan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Dying With a Left Ventricular Assist Device as Destination Therapy. [PDF]

Circ Heart Fail, 2016
Dunlay SM, Strand JJ, Wordingham SE, Stulak JM, Luckhardt AJ, Swetz KM.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Psychosocial characteristics and outcomes in patients with left ventricular assist device implanted as destination therapy. [PDF]

Am Heart J, 2015
Snipelisky D, Stulak JM, Schettle SD, Sharma S, Kushwaha SS, Dunlay SM.   +5 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Dynamic Forecasts of Survival for Patients Living With Destination Left Ventricular Assist Devices: Insights From INTERMACS

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) improve outcomes in patients with end‐stage heart failure and are increasingly implanted for destination therapy.
Katherine C. Michelis, Lin Zhong, Matthias Peltz, Ambarish Pandey, W. H. Wilson Tang, Anand Rohatgi, James B. Young, Mark H. Drazner, Justin L. Grodin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychological burden and coping in destination therapy patients with a left ventricular assist device: a qualitative content analysis.

Artificial Organs, 2021
BACKGROUND Due to an increasing prevalence of heart failure and persistent shortage of donor hearts, the number of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantations is growing.
Michael Levelink, A. K. Reinhold, O. Dewald, A. Brütt   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transcranial Doppler After Successful Endovascular Revascularization and Hospitalization Outcomes

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, 2023
Background Almost half of large‐vessel occlusion strokes have unfavorable outcomes despite successful endovascular therapy. We aim to investigate whether postrevascularization cerebral hemodynamics, determined by transcranial Doppler (TCD), associate ...
Victor J. Del Brutto, Jacob A. Sambursky, Nastajjia A. Krementz, Faisal J. Gondal, Hannah E. Gardener, Frank Cabrera, Yosdely Cabrera, Faddi Saleh Velez, Jose G. Romano, Sebastian Koch   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source